Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Themba Inc. currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These cases are distributed across 3 distinct examiners, which means that no two pending actions are assigned to the same individual. Furthermore, the 3 distinct art units involved indicate that each action is also being reviewed within a separate administrative group.
ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since the total pending actions and the distinct examiners are equal in number, the workload is split evenly among all participants. No single examiner or art unit carries a larger portion of the pending cases than the others.
For a patent practitioner, this distribution requires a strategy that accounts for different examiner perspectives. The pending office actions in the Communications field are not grouped together under one person or unit. Therefore, the practitioner must manage multiple independent prosecution timelines. The approach for ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI will be unique to that specific case and art unit, as there is no overlap in personnel across the 3 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI | 1 | 88.0% | +18.0% |
| GRABER, JAMES J | 1 | 46.5% | +57.6% |
| FURTADO, WINSTON RAHUL | 1 | 18.9% | +22.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17440548 | USING RELATIVES' INFORMATION TO DETERMINE GENETIC RISK FOR NON-MENDELIAN PHENOTYPES | FURTADO, WINSTON RAHUL | 14d |
| 18054891 | Systems and Methods to Preserve Wildlife and Enable Remote Wildlife Tourism | ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI | — |
| 17640711 | GENE EDITING FOR VIRAL INFECTIONS | GRABER, JAMES J | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17440548 | USING RELATIVES' INFORMATION TO DETERMINE GENETIC RISK FOR NON-MENDELIAN PHENOTYPES | FURTADO, WINSTON RAHUL | 14d |
| 18054891 | Systems and Methods to Preserve Wildlife and Enable Remote Wildlife Tourism | ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI | — |
| 17640711 | GENE EDITING FOR VIRAL INFECTIONS | GRABER, JAMES J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2661 | 1 |
| 1631 | 1 |
| 3687 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18054891 | Systems and Methods to Preserve Wildlife and Enable Remote Wildlife Tourism | ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI | 2661 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2022 |
| 17640711 | GENE EDITING FOR VIRAL INFECTIONS | GRABER, JAMES J | 1631 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2022 |
| 17440548 | USING RELATIVES' INFORMATION TO DETERMINE GENETIC RISK FOR NON-MENDELIAN PHENOTYPES | FURTADO, WINSTON RAHUL | 3687 | §101 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Sep 17, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialThemba Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Kyla Guan-Ping Ti Allen has the most, with 1 of Themba Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
